Blog archive 2013
NEWS – Edward Berry conference, Bordighera, 1 June 2013. .Just back from the conference about my great grand unce Edward Elhanan Berry […]
Photo research: Alberto Pelloux and Clarence Bicknell
Our assumption has been that the well-known photo of Bicknell and Pelloux together was taken in the high mountains, maybe in the […]
David Roberts and the Royal Academy, by Ian Fraser
We are pleased to be able to publish this interesting paper by my cousin Ian Fraser. David Roberts was his great great […]
Clarence’s collection of Pliocene fossils
Luca Barale writes “I have also find out that Clarence sent a collection of Pliocene fossils collected in the Bordighera neighbourhood to […]
Poems
Clarence Bicknell’s principal works of poetry are in Esperanto; in fact there are no serious poems in English in the museums referred […]
Hymns
It would seem evident at first glance that Clarence Bicknell, man of the church, would gravitate naturally towards writing hymns as a […]
Esperanto
Clarence Bicknell learned Esperanto in 1897, having previously studied Volapuk which enjoyed some success as a planned international language before being largely […]
Bicknell: archaeologist
Clarence Bicknell, archaeologist. An appreciation, by Christopher Chippindale. In 1909, the senior French prehistorian Cartailhac paid Bicknell a visit. He was […]
Les Merveilles
The Vallée des Merveilles, also known in Italian as the Valle delle Meraviglie (Valley of Marvels), is a part of the Mercantour […]
Archaeology
Clarence did not regard himself as an archaeologist. When he first went up into the Mercantour region in 1881, he certainly knew […]